“What are you doing? Quickly turn off the screen! I told you to turn it off!”
“I can’t close the file as if it’s eaten by a virus!”
“Then pull out the code. Quickly!”
The event venue turned into chaos.
Despite the efforts of the secretary and the public relations team leader to stop the playing screen, Chairman Jo still couldn’t take his eyes off Taejoon, completely absent-minded.
Only after pulling out the power cord, the playing video could be stopped. However, the atmosphere in the now chaotic event venue was nearly irreparable.
“Chairman, you need to get out of here now. The police will be here soon.”
Desperately, the secretary shouted, but Chairman Jo couldn’t move. No, it’s more accurate to say he wasn’t even thinking about moving.
Most of the brain areas that could control movement were in a saturated state.
He couldn’t think of anything.
The secretary urgently supported Chairman Jo down the stairs. Then, with a firm voice, he gave instructions to others, quickly making a path.
In this way, Chairman Jo, relying on the secretary, passed by Taejoon and Seorin.
And in the moment they passed by them, Chairman Jo saw it.
A faint smile of victory that had risen on Taejoon and Seorin’s lips.
“Chairman, let’s get you to a safe place first.”
The secretary pushed Chairman Jo into the waiting car and took the wheel himself. Indeed, he was Chairman Jo’s most trusted confidant.
Having gone through many tough situations, everything was perfectly prepared for situations like this.
But Chairman Jo never thought that such a trial would come at the peak moment of his life. Everything rushed in like a tidal wave and covered him in an instant.
Where did it all go wrong?
“Do the police know about it?”
When Chairman Jo managed to gather his thoughts and asked the secretary, he nodded.
“Yes. That’s what I was about to tell you a while ago. There’s chaos on the internet right now. It has spread rapidly to various sites, including the Blue House, the police agency, the prosecution, and all kinds of social media.”
“Since when?”
“It doesn’t seem to have been long. About an hour. It took time to identify due to pixelation, but it seems like Huh, the police chief, has already been exposed in the video.”
If Huh Gyeongjun’s identity is revealed, Chairman Jo is finished too. Since they held each other’s flaws, if Huh Gyeongjun falls, he’ll sink with him.
Getting hit on the back of the head like this.
Now, Chairman Jo, who finally regained his composure, took out his phone.
“It’s probably better not to call Director Sangmu for a while. First, go to a safe place to hide, then I’ll contact you separately after assessing the situation.”
“That would be the best.”
“And it’s better to get rid of your phone. It can be traced.”
At the secretary’s words, Chairman Jo hesitated. Meanwhile, the secretary parked the car on one side and threw both his phone and Chairman Jo’s phone into the river.
A little later, the secretary took hold of the steering wheel again and spoke.
“But, by any chance… Do you have any guesses about who did this?”
Chairman Jo’s stern reprimand followed that question.
“James Kang and Baek Seorin told me to kill them, but how are they still alive and well?”
“Because you instructed to disguise it as an accident involving both of them, sir. However, those two rarely stayed together except at home. They had separate movements, didn’t go on dates. It was like… they were avoiding each other.”
Hearing the secretary’s words, Chairman Jo could now understand everything. He had known through the video that he was trying to disguise the two of them as victims of an accident, so he deliberately didn’t accompany them and was cautious.
In short, he fell into his own trap.
“Should I give the order now? It’s okay to kill them separately; just give the command.”
“No. There’s no need for that yet. Let’s wait a bit for now.”
The last glimpse of their faces that he brushed past still lingered in his memory.
Along with Taejoon’s warning.
[Dash] Enjoy the show.He underestimated his opponent too easily.
In his heart, he wanted to deal with the two of them right away, but he held back. If they die, he will be the most likely suspect.
He had to wait and see the situation a bit.
And killing those two would be the last resort.
Huh Gyeongjun, watching the video posted on the police agency’s bulletin board, couldn’t stop his trembling lips.
Although it was pixelated, the video clearly showed the appearance of them meeting Chairman Jo on the day.
“How can this happen…”
They were usually very cautious when they met.
But just meeting once, how could such a video be taken and leaked!
He tried to recall where it all went wrong. Then he remembered. The employee who, on the day they met in a private room, changed the entire flowerpot, claiming the flowers in the room had withered.
The angle at which the video was taken matched exactly with the position of the flowerpot.
Only now did he realize that everything was done under a thorough plan. They knew.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
